Oleksandra Khalimon · Business Analyst

Profile

Business Analyst with 5+ years spanning executive-facing data products, government compliance platforms and regulated insurance. Comfortable owning a solution from ambiguous start to delivered end, moving between business and technical teams as the person who reconciles them and decides when a call has to be made. Backed by a computer-science foundation that makes the technical conversations real rather than translated, and a hands-on habit of staying close to the detail through to delivery.

Holds a Master's degree in Computer Science. Experienced in Jira, Confluence and Agile delivery frameworks including Scrum and Kanban, holding a PSPO I certification from Scrum.org. Fluent in English (C1) and Portuguese (B2). Registered Accessibility Facilitator (ARTE), applying WCAG 2.2 and EAA compliance standards in requirements definition and solution validation.

Professional Experience

Business Analyst — NTT Data Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal (Hybrid), Mar 2026 – Present

Business analysis role across enterprise insurance, public sector and data platform projects. Defines requirements, maps processes using BPMN notation, manages backlog refinement, supports roadmap definition, advises on solutions and coordinates cross-functional delivery across multiple Agile teams.

Coordinated requirements engineering and delivery across multiple Agile (Scrum) teams on e-Avalia, a government compliance platform managing programmes and budgets. Refined high-level business needs into functional and non-functional specifications, and maintained full traceability between requirements and solution validation across multiple interdependent modules.
Independently identified and built AI agent workflows (n8n, Claude) to automate BA processes on a live government compliance project, designing pipelines to process legislative documents, cross-reference multiple sources and generate structured compliance reports.
Interpreted complex and partially documented regulatory and business rules from public-sector stakeholders, resolving ambiguity into structured requirements, and defined the analysis approach across multiple workstreams balancing delivery capacity, technical constraints and stakeholder needs.

UX / Functional Analyst — NTT Data Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal (Hybrid), Aug 2022 – Feb 2026

Acted as a hybrid analytical/design specialist across enterprise insurance and digital platform projects, translating ambiguous business and client needs into concrete visual proposals, becoming a go-to problem-solver for stakeholders needing fast concept validation or proof of concept.

Distinguished hybrid profile, combining functional analysis with prototyping and visual communication, led to transfer onto e-Avalia, where this skillset was in direct demand, and subsequent promotion to full Business Analyst.
Translated ambiguous client intent into wireframes, user flows and prototypes used to validate requirements with senior stakeholders, building rapid proof-of-concept proposals inside live projects.
Conducted in-depth analysis of payment, profile management and policy lifecycle flows for Resolution Life (insurance) in a stakeholder-heavy environment with multiple senior decision-makers, producing diagrams and prototypes to support analytical findings and user stories, driving full digitalisation of customer-facing processes and raising customer satisfaction scores from 2/10 to 8/10.

Business Analysis Consultant (FinOps / Cloud Cost Governance) — eXalt Solutions

Boston, MA, USA (Remote), Jan 2022 – Oct 2023

Owned the full data product lifecycle for an established data platform company, working directly with the CEO and senior enterprise clients to turn raw data into deployed advisory products.

Built pipelines to collect financial and market datasets via web scraping and cloud provider APIs (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), structuring raw data into a database and designing the data models behind CPU pricing and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) frameworks that supported complex client procurement decisions.
Configured and maintained a proprietary advisory platform, preparing structured data files, calculation logic and configurations, and independently deploying advisory pages accessible to enterprise clients.
Defined and applied data quality controls and validation across the advisory pipeline, verifying accuracy, completeness and integrity before each production deployment to ensure reliable, time-sensitive outputs.
Defined functional requirements, data models and data structures in direct collaboration with the CEO, maintaining traceability from requirements through to analytical outputs and executive decision-making.

Earlier Experience

Product Analyst — Lantmännen Cerealia

Kyiv, Ukraine (Hybrid), Aug 2021 – Jan 2022

Worked on product development and positioning, using consumer data to support data-driven product decisions.

Analysed market and consumer data to support product positioning and communication decisions.
Interpreted results from product and packaging testing, identifying patterns, documenting findings and recommending improvements based on data analysis.
Prepared structured reports and data visualisations to support stakeholder engagement and product strategy.

Embedded Systems Product Analyst — National Technical University of Ukraine 'KPI'

Kyiv, Ukraine (On-site), Feb 2019 – Jan 2020

Supported product concept development in an embedded systems and robotics lab, translating client and research requirements into structured physical and technical product definitions. Collaborated with engineering teams to define component behaviour, electronics specifications and system interactions for IoT and robotics products.

Gathered and analysed early-stage client needs and research findings, translating them into structured functional and physical requirements for robotics and embedded systems components.
Collaborated with engineering teams to define component behaviour, electronics specifications and system interactions, ensuring technical feasibility and alignment with product objectives.
Documented requirements, research findings and iterative development decisions to support engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle.

Skills

Business Analysis Core

Requirements engineering & analysis (functional & non-functional)
Traceability
Process mapping (BPMN, UML)
Functional & technical specifications
User stories & acceptance criteria
Gap, impact & change analysis
Solution validation
Backlog management & refinement
Roadmap prioritisation
Stakeholder facilitation & engagement
Offshore/onshore collaboration
Wireframing & UI/usability analysis

Data & Governance

Data analysis
SQL
Data transformation & quality controls
Control frameworks
KPI & reporting
Enterprise systems & integration
Platform configuration
IT governance
Accessibility (WCAG 2.2, EAA, Registered Facilitator ARTE)

AI & Automation

AI agent development
Agentic workflows
GenAI tools
Process automation

Tools

Jira
Confluence
Excel
Power BI
n8n
Claude
Figma
Miro
Git
Python
OutSystems

Domain Experience

Insurance
Financial data
Public sector
Data platforms
Embedded & IoT

Methodologies

Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
SDLC
Hardware/software integration

Education

Master's Degree in Computer Science (with distinction)

Drahomanov National Pedagogical University, Ukraine, 2022

Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering

National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky KPI”, Ukraine, 2020

Certifications

Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)

Scrum.org, 2026

Verify credential

Registered Accessibility Facilitator – Selo de Usabilidade e Acessibilidade (ARTE)

Portugal